The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-09-22
AN INCREASE Of CHOLERA
olstlEARTENlNG NEWS FROM THE
INFECTED DISTRICT AT MESsINA.

The Real State Of Affairs Being Sup
pressed by the Authoriries-Newspa
Bribed Tnt0 siIence--COmments on Our
Centennlal--Othe ther Foreign News
ROME, Sept 2l-Very unsatisfactory
news reaches here from Messina, where the
cholera epidemic is declared to be steadily
increasing in violencs Nor is the situation
rendered better by tle refusal Of the author
tiles to allow the zeal state Of affairs to be
telegraphed 1t is nevertheless known that
the epidemic is of the most violent descrip-
ton, deaths frequently ensuing within an
hour of the seizure The mortality is not
confined to the poorer classes, many fatal
cases having taken place among the well-to-
10. CIR at misery prevails, and the general
distress was increased on Friday last by the
refusal of the gravediggers to continue their
work.
Coercive measures had to be resorted to
by the authorsties before the men would
again take up their spades. But eventually,
after half a days idieness, during which
large numbers of bodies remained unburied,
tho men we're induced TO resume work The
epidemic has also broken out in the prisons.
It is difficult to obtain anything more than
IN approximation of the daily number of
leaths frem the epidemic at Msssina, but
ihey seem latterly to have averaged some
twenty or thirty during lhe twenty four
hours, the seizures being perhaps three or
four times as many In the Naples district
there has also been an increase during the
past day or two. The latest returns issued
how thirty-nine cases and twenty deaths
during the preceding twenty-four hours
while at POZguoh there have been seven
deaths. At r lme also the epidemic shows
signs of increasing in violence, the daily
average of lses being about forty, Here
again there is determined attempt to dis
guise the truth.
The newspapers with one exception, which
after publishing a daily bulletin for some
time was, it is said, bribed into silence, do
not even mention the existence of the cpl
lemic, in the hope Of roassuring the public,
In consequences of tho recent case at the
Vatican the pOpe has suspended all audi
9nces for the present 1t is the same with
the pilgrimages from France and Switzer-
land, which were to have taken place at the
beginning Of October, but have now been
countermanded Tue anxiety at the Vati-
can is additionally great, and it is feared
that the epidemic may injure the celebra-
tion OF the pope's jubilee
The Thunderer on the Centennial
LONDON, Sept. 2l.-The Times Yesterday
in reviewing the Philadelphia centennial
celebration of the adoDtion of the constitu-
ton refers to the official report of the war
department giving the number of men slain
during the war Of che rebellion. 1t says:
Americans frequently appear to be vain Of
this gigantic catalogue OF slaughter, pain
and devastation. Their pride in its magni-
tude has always seemed to Englishmen &C.
centric. In one respect 1T may not be alto
gether misplaced, for it bsars witness to the
majority of them of the incompatible value
of the object for which such calamities wer Q
inflicted and suffered. That consideration
in itself would have been but doubtfully
satisfactory if the defeated minority were
covering or skulking in the south. The de-
meanor, however, of Che American nation
as whole justifies the sacrifices which the
whole offered. The sentiment throughout
the republic regarding the occasion of last
weeks anniversary is that it is the apology
for the tremendous butchers bills on both
sides, America has agreed with mGgnani-
nous unanlmity to put the entire amount to
the account of the maintenance of that
national life which commenced formally
one hundred years since. If no war in
the annals of history was waged with more
iron obstinacy or was 50 relentlessly mur-
derous in its operations, neither has any
ever left behind it on the whole less rancor
or vindictiveness. The American constitu-
ton may claim the merit Of the latter
popularity, as it is wishing to bear the bur-
den of the former. To its friends quarter
of century ago its excellencies were so
manifest that they did not count the price
of their enjoyment to its apparent adver-
saries then. They are so manifest now that
most would agree they haven't paid too
highly for being obliged to remain in joint
possession of them. In the former confed-
crate states only few persist in lamenting
their effort towards disunion which was
finally frustrated.